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Captive Audience Learning

Watch now: this webinar looks at some innovative ways to get history out onto the streets of your city and have everyone, including your students, learn new things.


Heritage Gourmet: Recipes from Parks Canada

Parks Canada merges 18th-century dining with 21st-century technology. Heritage Gourmet is a culinary journey through Canada’s rich history.


Heroine of the North-West Resistance

There are many ways to view the armed conflict of 1885. Elizabeth McLean’s account of her experience as a captive of the Cree is surprisingly enlightened for its time.


Enchanted Canoe

A deal with the devil brings woodcutters home for the holidays in this delightful folktale from Quebec.


Married to History

A Winnipeg couple goes back in time at their 1815-inspired historical wedding.


Paddling into our Past

From the Archives: The Summer 1967 issue of The Beaver told of paddlers in Canada's centennial year.


Abenaki Daring

Book Review: Jean Barman’s book Abenaki Daring: The Life and Writings of Noel Annance, 1792–1869 provides a fascinating glimpse into the experiences of a man whose career and whose life as an Indigenous person and as a proclaimed “gentleman” dared to challenge the exclusion he faced within the context of the developing Dominion.


Treaties and the Treaty Relationship

Everyone benefits when there is a greater understanding and appreciation of Treaties and the Treaty relationship. This special issue is part of a greater conversation to ensure that our collective history is truly inclusive.


Inland Mariners

From the Archives: Barges, steamboats, “timber cruising” and more in the June 1943 issue of The Beaver magazine.


Festival du Voyageur

The largest winter festival in Western Canada is celebrating its fiftieth year.